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Begunkodor: A group of rationalists spent a winter night in the small obscure railway station in West Bengal's Purulia district, which had been recorded as 'haunted' by the Railways, to bust the myth.
The group found a few locals trying to scare them away from the station on Thursday night instead of any paranormal presence, a member of the rationalist group said today.
Begunkodor station, located near the Ayodhya Hills and 50 km from Purulia town, had earned the distinction of being a 'ghost station' after 1967, the year its station master had reportedly died after seeing a white sari clad woman walking along the tracks in the night.
The incident had caused passengers to desert the station and it had come to be known as 'haunted' in the Railways records.
Begunkodor had been closed since then and was listed by Railways as one of its 10 'haunted' stations in India.
The station was reopened 42 long years later in 2009 by Mamata Banerjee during her tenure as the railways minister.
Since then trains stopped at this obscure station and passengers used it only till 5 pm scared of encounters with the ghosts.
A nine-member team of the rationalist organisation Paschim Banga Bigyan Manch, armed with torches, digital compasses and cameras, had camped at this station with police protection on Thursday night and busted the decades-old myth.
